Major staff reorganization continues at The Walrus

Following on the recent departure of both senior editors at The Walrus (see earlier post), Managing Editor Jeremy Keehn is relinquishing his role to become a full-time senior editor. He is being replaced by Jared Bland, at one time an intern and now an occasional blogger and reviewer. (This, from an internal memorandum by editor Ken Alexander, forwarded anonymously.)

The other senior editor's position is to be filled by Sylvia Barrett, who was senior editor at Canadian Geographic in Ottawa. It is understood she is to commute to Toronto during the week to do the job.

Prior to CanGeo, Barrett was Science Editor and later Managing Editor of the late Equinox magazine. She won two gold medals in the National Magazine Awards for science writing, a Michener Award for excellence in public-service journalism, and honorable mention in the competition for The Washington Journalism Center's Thomas L. Stokes Award. Her book The Arsenic Milkshake and other mysteries solved by forensic science (Doubleday 1994) was short listed for both the Science in Society Book Award and the Arthur Ellis Award for non-fiction crime writing. She is also vice-president of the National Press Club of Canada.